Flexibility and Pedagogy in Higher Education

Delivering Flexibility in Learning Through Online Learning Communities
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43809-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Flexibility has long been a feature of the delivery of learning in higher education, particularly with the rise in importance of technology in giving learners greater choice over when, where and how they engage in learning. Recent analysis has sought to look beyond its significance in learning delivery to its value as a personal attribute of both learners and educators. Flexibility is now a key feature of debates addressing the role of universities in producing graduates with the capability to become change agents in increasingly dynamic workplaces and the wider world.

Flexibility and Pedagogy in Higher Education explores flexibility in learning in the context of online learning communities, in relation to the delivery of learning and as a means of promoting the development of flexibility as a personal attribute. Essays draw on examples involving students from foundation up to postgraduate level in curricular and co-curricular settings.

The essays collected in this volume examine the practical application of flexibility in learning through the use of online learning communities. It provides best practice examples for educators looking to use innovative pedagogies to develop flexible learning experiences, thereby building on recent studies on the place of flexibility in the future development of higher education.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dennis, Chris

Abbott, Stuart

Matheson, Ruth

Tangney, Sue

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein E-Learning
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Chris Dennis, Ruth Matheson and Sue Tangney
1. Bend Me, Shape Me: Flexible Pedagogies to Widen Participation and Deliver on Social Justice

John Butcher and Liz Marr
2. Promoting Flexible Learning through Embedded, Online Study Skills Support

Leila Griffiths
3. Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Coalescing Digital and Physical Learning Spaces in Temporary Online Learning Communities

Chris Little and Matthew Street
4. Enhancing the Student Experience: Examples of Joint Student-Staff Partnerships to Create and Embed Online Peer Networks within Programmes of Study

Nicola Poole and Sophie Leslie
5. A Classroom without Walls: Academic and Student Nurses Co-Curating Twitter in Partnership

Moira McLoughlin and Wendy Sinclair
6. Shadow Modules and Student-Led Online Learning Communities: Supporting Learning, Engagement, and Student Empowerment within, and across, Institutions in Higher Education

Sheila L. Amici-Dargan, Amber M. Moorcroft and Stephen M. Rutherford
7. Youth Justice Live!: Flexible Pedagogies in an Online/Offline Community of Practice

Sue Bond-Taylor and Ceryl Teleri Davies
8. Opening the Door to the Virtual School: Enhancing Student Engagement through Online Learning Communities

Sharon Smith and Ruth Hewston
9. Academic Support Online: Developing an Integrated Academic Support Environment at the University of the Arts London

Graham Barton and Alex Lumley
10. Commonplace: A Student-Led Survival Guide to Support Transitions and Belonging at University of the Arts London (UAL)

Siobhan Clay and Paul Tabak
11. Flexible Socialisation and the Use of Twitter by a University Library: Exploring the Role of Social Media in Co-Curricular Settings As a Way of Fostering the Socialisation of Students into an Academic Community

Chris Dennis, Stuart Abbott and Rob Sell
12. The Student Hub Live: The Open University’s Solution to Facilitating the Development of an Academic Community in Distance Learning through Collaborative Online Interaction

Karen Foley
13. Online Learning Communities and Flexibility in Learning

Chris Dennis

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Dennis, Ph.D. (2012), Cardiff University, is an Academic Skills Specialist at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Recent publications include, ‘Academic integration’, with Stuart Abbott and Jake Bailey, in Matheson, Tangney and Sutcliffe (Eds.), Transitions in, through and out of Higher Education (Routledge, 2018).

Stuart Abbott is PgCLTHE Course Leader at the University of South Wales. His recent publications include ‘Academic integration’, with Chris Dennis and Jake Bailey, in Matheson, Tangney and Sutcliffe (Eds.), Transitions in, through and out of Higher Education (Routledge, 2018).

Ruth Matheson, NTF (2012), is Head of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience (FLSE) at University of South Wales. Her recent publications include In Pursuit of Teaching Excellence (THE, 2019) and, with Sutcliffe, Belonging and Transition (IETI, 2018).

Sue Tangney, Ed.D. (2012) Open University, is a Principal Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her recent publications include, with Flay-Petty, Developing Mid-Career Academic Staff in a Changing University Environment (AISHE, 2019), and with Leslie and Newman-Ford, How Internationalised is Your Curriculum? (IHE, 2019).